Why do people prefer to believe in modern medicine instead of traditional Chinese medicine which has been passed down in China for thousands of years?

In China, only a few people believe in modern medicine, and most people in China (including some famous scholars and experts in the medical field) don't believe in modern medicine.

Medicine belongs to the category of science. In scientific matters, we should trust the latest research results (through scientific experiments and experiments, we can get conclusions that meet scientific standards), and don't stick to the old conclusions. For example, the ancients believed that people were sick because of the invasion of evil spirits such as wind, humidity and cold. Modern medicine has proved through a large number of experiments and experiments that wind, humidity and cold will not make people sick, so we must believe the conclusions of scientific experiments and experiments, and we can no longer believe the conclusions drawn by the ancients through speculation and reasoning.

Thousands of years of knowledge and experience are not necessarily correct. People in the Han Dynasty abandoned some ancient witch doctors who had been circulating for tens of thousands of years and founded herbal medicine, which was a denial of ancestors and traditions. In this sense, Chinese medicine at that time was progressive and advanced.

The significance of scientific existence lies in constantly discovering and revealing the essence of things and denying and correcting the wrong conclusions drawn by non-scientific methods.